API Security Archives – Cloudentity

eCBSV: new consent-based SSN verification service

Published May 6, 2022

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Following worldwide trends of governments providing new and better identity and privacy services to consumers and banks, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is implementing a new fee-based Social Security number (SSN) verification service known as Electronic Consent Based Social Security Number Verification (eCBSV). This service follows worldwide privacy directives aligned with Open Banking, requiring data...

Identity Management Day 2022: Are Your Digital Identities Secure?

Published April 12, 2022

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Hosted by the Identity Defined Security Alliance and National Cybersecurity Alliance, Identity Management Day aims to provide education about the dangers of casually or improperly managing and securing digital identities, raising awareness and sharing best practices across the industry. According to Gartner, APIs are expected to be the most frequent attack vector in 2022, and...

Making Dynamic Authorization an Essential Pillar in Federal Government Zero Trust Architecture Strategies

Published March 29, 2022

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Author: Brook Lovatt, Chief Product Officer of Cloudentity The government’s focus on Zero Trust has risen in the past year, as shown by the Biden Administration's May 2021 and January 2022 executive orders and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Zero Trust Maturity Model. CISA’s Zero Trust Maturity Model is one of many roadmaps...

Aligning Cloudentity Components with XACML Terminology

Published March 17, 2022

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Cloudentity is frequently asked how our components and features align with those of the legacy XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language), including Policy Administration Points (PAP), Policy Decision Points (PDP), Policy Information Points (PIP), and Policy Enforcement Points (PEP). In this article, we will describe what the Cloudentity components are and how they align with...

Securing partner API integrations with OAuth mTLS

Published March 16, 2022

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Securing partner API integrations with OAuth mTLS API access using token-based architectures is already popular, and the authorization and governance of the minted tokens for access becomes very critical for APIs, which exposes data for partner integrations outside of the organization itself. This is exactly where we can utilize the OAuth mTLS specification along with...

The Perimeter has Disappeared: Why Zero Trust and IAM are Essential to Secure the Modern Enterprise

Published March 10, 2022

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In the conventional, on-premises IT infrastructure, organizations worked within the boundaries of their well-defined enterprise network perimeter. In this setting, on-premises security tools like virtual private networks (VPNs) were mostly sufficient to secure users and devices within the perimeter walls. However, with the increase in remote work and cloud computing, organizations are leveraging various apps...

Cloudentity Named Winner in the Globee Awards 18th Annual Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards

Published March 9, 2022

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Cloudentity Named Winner in the Globee Awards 18th Annual Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards We’re excited to share that the Globee Awards have named Cloudentity a winner in the Application Programming Interface (API) Management and Security category in the 18th Annual 2022 Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards. These prestigious global awards recognize cyber security and...

Build a GraphQL client application to consume protected GraphQL API resources

Published February 21, 2022

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This article is part 3 of our GraphQL application protection series. In this article, we will build a GraphQL client that is capable of invoking GraphQL API calls, obtain authorized access tokens from a Cloudentity authorization server and send the authorization token to underlying GraphQL services. Part 1: Externalized authorization for GraphQL using the Cloudentity...

Protecting GraphQL applications through authorization and consent

Published February 18, 2022

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This article is part 2 of our GraphQL application protection series. In this article, we will build a GraphQL API server and protect its resources with externalized policies administered in the Cloudentity Authorization SaaS platform. We will also protect the GraphQL API endpoint data with a local policy enforcement/decision point for the app deployed within...

Cloudentity Wins Cybersecurity Excellence Award in API Security

Published February 17, 2022

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We’re excited to share that Cloudentity has been named a Silver Winner in the API Security category for the 2022 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards! The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards honor individuals and companies that demonstrate excellence, innovation and leadership in information security. With over 700 entries this year, we’re honored to be selected as a winner. Specifically,...

Externalized Authorization for GraphQL

Published February 15, 2022

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This article is the first part of a series to explore usage of the Cloudentity authorization platform for externalized GraphQL runtime authorization along with policy based access controls for GraphQL native constructs. Modern applications require runtime and flexible authorization controls to manage the security and risk of data exposed using technologies like GraphQL to various...

Identity and Authorization At Cloud Scale

Published December 6, 2021

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The future has a lot to answer for. For decades we’ve been promised super-cool inventions that we still haven’t received - flying cars, jetpacks and IAM platforms that provide security, scale and manageability- all with wrapped up with 21st century automation. George Jetson’s job had two settings ("Start" & "Stop") and the computer did the...

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Identity Management Day 2022: Are Your Digital Identities Secure?

Making Dynamic Authorization an Essential Pillar in Federal Government Zero Trust Architecture Strategies

Aligning Cloudentity Components with XACML Terminology

Securing partner API integrations with OAuth mTLS

The Perimeter has Disappeared: Why Zero Trust and IAM are Essential to Secure the Modern Enterprise

Cloudentity Named Winner in the Globee Awards 18th Annual Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards

Build a GraphQL client application to consume protected GraphQL API resources

Protecting GraphQL applications through authorization and consent

Cloudentity Wins Cybersecurity Excellence Award in API Security

Externalized Authorization for GraphQL

Identity and Authorization At Cloud Scale

Enterprises Reveal the State of their API Security & Governance

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